- 1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
- 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star".
- 1863 - Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
- 1911 - Willis Carrier presents his influencial "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- 1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
Saturday 3 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History ( 3rd December )
Friday 2 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (2nd December )
- 1697- St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London).
- 1779 - Washington establishes winter quarters at Morristown.
- 1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-president.
- 1868 - 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli resigns.
- 1942 - The Allies repel a strong Axis attack in Tunisia, North Africa.
Thursday 1 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (1st December )
- 1862 - Lincoln’s State of the Union address.
- 1925 - After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.
- 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws.
- 1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year.
- 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller".
Wednesday 30 November 2016
6 event in Today's Date in History (30th November )
- 1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I.
- 1858 - Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in Munshiganj, Bengal Presidency, (present day Bangladesh) on 30 November.
- 1909 - British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.
- 1950 - President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
- 1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass".
- 1989- “America’s First Female Serial Killer” strikes.
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 29th November )
- 1864 - Colonel John M. Chivington's 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles' camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.
- 1868 - "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
- 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
- 1929 - Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.
- 1952 - US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war.
Monday 28 November 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (28th November )
- 1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellanbegins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
- 1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis.
- 1868 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
- 1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.
- 1930 - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres.
Sunday 27 November 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (27th November )
- 1895 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize.
- 1941 - The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 1945 - Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China.
- 1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote.
- 1978 - San Francisco leaders George Moscone and Harvey Milk are murdered.
Saturday 26 November 2016
Friday 25 November 2016
5 important event in Today's Date in History (25th November )
- 1839 - Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa . Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.
- 1867 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
- 1921 - Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.
- 1950 - Storm of the century hits eastern U.S.
- 1963 - The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
5 event in Today's Date in History (24th November )
- 1859 - Origin of Species is published.
- 1863 - In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker‘s forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1874 - American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire On November 24, 1874.
- 1918 - Yugoslav National Council expresses concerns about post-war boundaries.
- 1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas.
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Top 5 most interesting event in Today's Date in History (23rd NOVEMBER)
1. 800 - Charlemagne arrives in Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
2. 1556 - King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts.
3. 1644 - Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published.
4. 1990 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory creator Roald Dahl dies.
5. 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation.
Tuesday 22 November 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History ( 22nd November )
1. 1497 - Portuguese
navigator Vasco
da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe
to reach India.
2. 1675 - English
king Charles
II adjourns Parliament.
3. 1982 - Ronald Reagan calls
for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.
4. 1998 - "Titanic" actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All Saints Church in Reading, England.
5. 2002 - Die Another Day released
40 years after first Bond film.
Monday 21 November 2016
5 important event in Today's Date in History ( 21st November )
1. 1787 - Andrew
Jackson admitted to the bar.
2. 1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is
promoted to General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the
French Republic.
3. 1924 - 1924 British Prime
Minister Stanley
Baldwincancels Labour contract with USSR.
4. 1917 - Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir
Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer.
5. 1982 - Singer Joni
Mitchell (39) weds bassist Larry Klein in Malibu, California.
5 interesting event in Today's Date in History (20th November )
1. 1805 - Beethoven's "Fidelio" premieres in Vienna.
2. 1934 - Lillian
Hellman's "Children's Hour" premieres in NYC.
3. 1969 - Brazilian
soccer icon Pele scores
his 1,000th goal.
4. 1981
- Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.
5.
1984 - McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger.
Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 19th November )
1.
1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the “Gettysburg Address” at the dedication of the National
Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
2. 1967 - 1967 Chaplain
Charles Watters receives Medal of Honor
3. 1985 - US
President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet
for first time
4. 1911- NY
receives first Marconi wireless
transmission from Italy
5. 1932 -
Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
5 event in Today's Date in History ( 17th November )
1. 1421 - Thousands die in massive flood.
2. 1558 - Elizabeth I aged
25 ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Queen
"Bloody" Mary.
3. 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpine River, Italy.
4. 1855 - David
Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in
what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
5.
1931 - Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from
Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clippe.
Top 5 interesting event in Today's Date in History ( 16th November )
1. 1835 - Charles
Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society.
2. 1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Incan Emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca.
2. 1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Incan Emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca.
3. 1945 - "The
Lost Weekend", based on Charles R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and
starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman is released (Best Picture 1946).
4. 1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane
from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel.
5. 1957 - Celtic Bill Russell sets
NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89.
Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 15th November )
1. 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes
1st recorded reference to tobacco.
2.
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco.
3. 1577 -
Sir Francis
Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington.
4. 1620 - Myles
Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of the northern portion
of Cape Cod.
5. 1720 - Anne Bonny,
Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought
to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial.
5 important event in Today's Date in History ( 14th November )
1. 1812 - As Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
2. 1833 - CharlesDarwin departs by horse to Montevideo.
3.
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian nationalist leader.
4.
1940 - German bombers devastate Coventry in
Great Britain, killing 1,000
in the worst air raid of the war.
5.
1960 - President Dwight Eisenhower orders
U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro
with starting uprisings.
5 interesting event in Today's Date in History (13th November )
2. 1862 - Lewis
Carroll writes
in his diary, “Began writing the fairy-tale of Alice - I hope to finish it
by Christmas.”
5 important event in Today's Date in History ( 12th November )
1.1863 - Confederate General James
Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union
General Ambrose Burnside‘s troops at Knoxville.
4. 1971 - President
Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from
Vietnam by February.
5. 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal
proposal for the World Wide Web. Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 11th November )
1.
1675 - Integral calculus is
demonstrated for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x)
function.
2.
1714 - A highway in Bronx is laid
out, later renamed East 233rd Street
3.
1889 - Washington is admitted as the
42nd U.S. state.
4.
1918 - The German leaders sign the
armistice ending World War I.
5. 1953 - The polio virus is identified and
photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5 event in Today's Date in History ( 10th November )
1. 1871 - Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at
Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa.
2. 1879 - Little
Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is
caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for
which he will be courtmartialed.
3. 1941 - Winston
Churchill promises to join the U.S. “within the hour” in
the event of war with Japan.
4. 1961 - Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary
to President John F. Kennedy.
5. 1986 - President
Ronald Reagan refuses to
reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
Top 5 interesting event in Today's Date in History ( 9th November )
1. 1848 - The first U.S. Post Office in California
opens in San Francisco at Clay and Pike streets. At the time there are only
about 15,000 European settlers living in the state.
2. 1965 - Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old former
seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolates himself at
the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
3. 1967 - NASA
launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful
test of a Saturn V rocket.
4. 1972 - Bones discovered
by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years.
5. 2007 - German Bundestag
passes controversial bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications
traffic date for six months without probable cause.
Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 8th November )
1. 392- Theodosius of Rome passes
legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.
2. 1960 - John
F. Kennedy is
elected as the youngest US President in history.
3. 1977 - Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos
discovers what is believed to be the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in northern Greece.
4. 1995 - Wilhelm
Rontgen discovers
x-rays when experimenting with electricity.
5. 2000 - Dispute begins over US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore;
Supreme Court ruling on Dec. 12 results in a 271-266 electoral victory for Bush .
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